"Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused."

"Money is representative, and follows the nature and fortunes of the owner...The farmer is covetous of his dollar, and with reason. It is no waif to him. He knows how many strokes of labor it represents. His bones ache with the days' work that earned it. He knows how much land it represents - how much rain, frost and sunshine. He knows that, in the dollar, he gives you so much discretion and patience, so much hoeing and threshing. Try to lift his dollar; you must lift all that weight. In the city, where money follows the skit of a pen or a lucky rise in exchange, it comes to be looked on as light."

"There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat."

"We change whether we like it or not."

"The poet is the sayer, the namer, and represents beauty."

"I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions."

"Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world."

"The mystic must be steadily told,-All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,-universal signs, instead of these village symbols,-and we shall both be gainers. The history of hierarchies seems to show that all religious error consisted in making the symbol too stark and solid, and was at last nothing but an excess of the organ of language."

"To stand in true relations with men in a false age is worth a fit of insanity, is it not?"

"How casually and unobservedly we make all our most valued acquaintances."

"Nature is too thin a screen the glory of the omnipresent God bursts through everywhere."

"Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea."

"Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book."

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

"In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs."

"Every man passes his life in the search after friendship."

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."

"The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear."

"The imitator dooms himself to hopeless mediocrity. The inventor did it, because it was natural to him, and so in him it has a charm. In the imitator, something else is natural, and he bereaves himself of his own beauty, to come short of another man's."

"Wilt thou seal up the avenues of ill? Pay every debt as if God wrote the bill!"

"Good breeding a union of kindness and independence."

"An Eastern poet, Ali Ben Abu Taleb, writes with sad truth, -"He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare,And he who has one enemy shall meet him everywhere."

"The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain."

"I will not hide my tastes or aversions. I will so trust that what is deep is holy, that I will do strongly before the sun and moon whatever only rejoices me, and the heart appoints."

"The student is to read history actively not passively."

"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."

"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."

"Men's actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action."

"If a man own land the land owns him."

"A man builds a fine house and now he has a master and a task for life is to furnish watch show it and keep it in repair the rest of his life."

"I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me."

"A feeble man can see the farms that are fenced and tilled the houses that are built. The strong man sees the possible houses and farms. His eye makes estates as fast as the sun breeds clouds."

"People only see what they are prepared to see."

"The merit claimed for the Anglican Church is that if you let it alone it will let you alone."

"A world in the hand is worth two in the bush."

"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."

"People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else."

"Passion though a bad regulator is a powerful spring."

"What I must do, is all that concerns me, not what the people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and in intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."

"The word miracle, as pronounced by Christian churches, gives a false impression; it is a monster. It is not one with the blowing clover and the falling rain."

"Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get."

"Beauty will not come at the call of a legislature, nor will it repeat in England or America its history in Greece. It will come, as always, unannounced, and spring up between the feet of brave and earnest men."

"So nigh is grandeur to our dust So near is God to man. When Duty whispers low Thou must The youth replies I can."

"When there is no vision people perish."

"Good men must not obey the laws too well."

"Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?"

"There is a difference between truly listening and waiting for your turn to talk."

"The reward of a thing well done is having done it."

"Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late."